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The best example is with red delicious apples
purchased at
your local grocery store.
The apples have whitish areas/stains on the outside
skin,
and on red apples the white stains are especially
visible.
It is difficult to remove the stains even when trying
to
rub them off under running water. When soaked in
water for
10 mins the whitish areas become even
more visible. I assume they are wax, and the type of
wax
used on apples supposed to be
water soluble and easily removable and these stains
one is
NOT. I do not want to eat apples with pesticides and
other
dirt under the wax.

These stains are on apples no matter where you buy
them.
Is there any way to remove the wax quickly and
reliably?
Does it make sense to peel each apple?


It's easy to remove. Get yourself a fingernail brush
that
you'll use just for fruits & vegetables. Put a drop or
two
of dish soap on the brush and scrub, then rinse
(obviously). It won't hurt the apple, but it will
remove
the wax. Besides seeing that it's gone, you'll notice
that
the skin suddenly has an apple smell.

this works, although i use a washrag & not a brush.
one should remember that apples also have a natural waxy
coating on the skin, in addion to that which is applied
for
storage. my guess is that the whitish area on the skin is
the
natural wax bloom under the artificially applied wax. the
bloom would get larger if the apple was soaking.

I agree with you about the pesticides, but the wax is a
good thing. Without it, it's unlikely any domestically
grown apples would last more than a month or three. Red
Delicious have a thicker skin, and might go well
without
wax, but they're only good for cattle feed, so who
cares?

geez Doug, it's bad enough you hate dogs. now you want to
subject poor innocent cows to the abomination that is a
Delicious apple? you evil, twisted man!
the only use for a Delicious apple is starting a compost
pile...

Delicious apples are also good ballast for florists' fruit
baskets - they keep the baskets stable so they don't tip
over
and damage the worthwhile fruit, if any. :-)

They may not taste as good as other apple varieties, but
AFAIK red
delicious
skins contain a far greater concentration of the antioxidant
flavonoid named
quercetin, than does any other variety of apple. This is also
true of red onions with respect to yellow/white varieties.

Other important sources of quercetin: black/green teas,
cranberry, red wine,
brocolli, kale, spinach, whole buckwheat flour, undutched
cocoa
powder

Any of those things taste much better than red delicious
apples.

They are very red but not at all delicious.

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Travis in Shoreline (just North of Seattle) Washington
USDA Zone 8
Sunset Zone 5